James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner?a Graphic Biography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781628726558)

A dazzling, prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers.

Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes and hundreds of ink-wash drawings, Alfonso Zapico invites the reader to share Joyce's journey, from his earliest days in Dublin to his life with his great love, Nora Barnacle, and their children, and his struggles and triumphs as an artist.

Joyce experienced poverty, rejection, censorship, charges of blasphemy and obscenity, war, and crippling ill-health. A rebel and nonconformist in Dublin and a harsh critic of Irish society, he left Ireland in self-imposed exile with Nora, moving to Paris, Pola, Trieste, Rome, London, and finally Zurich. He overcame monumental challenges in creating and publishing Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake. Along the way, he encountered a colorful cast of characters, from the Irish nationalists Charles Parnell and Michael Collins to literary greats Yeats, Proust, Hemingway, and Beckett, and the likes of Carl Jung and Vladimir Lenin.

Author: Alfonso Zapico
ISBN-10: 1628726555
ISBN-13: 9781628726558
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2016
Booklist 03/15/2016 pg. 39
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2016
Library Journal 05/15/2016 pg. 61
Shelf Awareness 05/17/2016
Foreword 05/26/2016